Carroll, J. and D. McCarthy (2000) `Word sense disambiguation using automatically acquired verbal preferences', Computers and the Humanities, 34(1-2). 109-114.
The selectional preferences of verbal predicates are an important component of a computational lexicon. They have frequently been cited as being useful for WSD, alongside other sources of knowledge. We evaluate automatically acquired selectional preferences on the level playing field provided by SENSEVAL to examine to what extent they help in WSD.
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